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Everyone wish my good friend Jonathan luck, he's studying to pass the bar rn and apparently has a big work trip/promotion thingy coming up 🥺

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Not only are these three characters in the same show, they are in fact in the same scene.

Also apparently all I was missing in my life for joy was Rosamund Pike in a terrible hat. This hat has brought me so much joy. It is so bad. It's wonderful.

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There's going to be a Whedon-less Buffy revival and honestly the Whedon project I want to see redone without him is Dollhouse. Buffy is such an intersection of Whedon but Dollhouse has so much amazing potential that's just untouched because the show was very rarely as good as it could be.

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my favorite scene in LotR as a kid was when Sam started miserably freestyling in the tower of Cirith Ungol and the only reason he ever found Frodo was because he deliriously tried to join in

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So I wrote my thesis paper about Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, even though it didn't really focus on Bankole (though I dipped into slight analysis of patriarchal systems and fatherhood and I think there's pretty fruitful analysis of examining Bankole from that lens), so I feel like this is somewhere where I have some authority, so from that place of authority, I would like to say

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LMAO IS LAUREN AND BANKOLE PROBLEMATIC LMAO GOD WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS DISCOURSE HAVE YOU READ ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE BOOK YOU'RE READING OMFG

listening to one of my little book podcasts and the girlies are LOSING IT because they read Parable of the Sower and don't know what to make of the #problematic relationship between the teenage protag and a man older than her father. literally out here talking about how it's a weird oversight in a book that's otherwise so brilliant and progressive, like it's some kind of mistake that Butler made. I genuinely like this show and mean no disrespect to the host but some bitches are not cut out for Octavia Butler, that's like the most normal relationship she ever wrote.

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checking up on former mutuals and friends

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Sometimes family is a guy, his daughter, and his psychopathic friend he spent a few weeks on a rampage through space with and calls his best friend in the world.

You miss him? He was good company. He was my best friend in the whole world.

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Tumblr trying to kill my friends

Might start smoking again. Like at this point, who cares

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Everyone knows year 31 is the tough one

Do you think trying to design for all of standard, modern, commander, and limited [and trying not to break legacy/vintage along the way] is sustainable? Not that the community hasn't been fractured to some extent since at least the 90's when I started playing, but coming back to the game after a break from it, it really feels like no matter what you do, at this point, it upsets at least one format, often several, even if the format it was done for is happy about it?

We’ve been doing it for thirty plus years, so yes, I’d call it sustainable.

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On Friendship.

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i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

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Something similar to this did actually happen, where a Jewish fan wrote to Dickens very pissed off and in response Dickens decided to make amends and write a good guy Jewish character into Our Mutual Friend.

reverse A Christmas Carol where Charles Dickens is visited by eight spirits during Hanukkah to terrorize him into being normal about Jews

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I have yet to see a Dracula adaptation that properly includes the best character in the book: An American who loves guns.

once more am I late in my reading, but it will never not be hilarious to me that Quincey—upon hearing of the gangs plan to hunt Dracula back in Transylvania—says “look this magic stuff is all well and good but I think we should try shooting the bastard with many guns” and everybody says “yes good idea quincey you can bring a gun, but let’s focus on the supernatural stuff” and Quincey says “okay but I think this gun plan will work”

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There is an essay forming in my mind about how two of the main villains of Arcane - possibly the two main villains - both have lines in season 2 about how difficult and important forgiveness is. Silco says "The greatest thing we can do in life is find the power to forgive". Ambessa, when trying to corrupt Caitlyn, says that if Caitlyn is strong enough, she can forgive and trust in tomorrow. Both of these villains are very much on their paths because they can't forgive, as opposed to Caitlyn, Jinx, and Vi, all of whom forgive and beg forgiveness throughout the season, as well as Ekko whose arc is basically "encapsulate the perfect boy". But it's very interesting that Ambessa ties forgiveness to strength, her most cherished value, which to her is about seeking victory above all (see: her last line in the show). These are disparate thoughts, and I'm going to let my mind tie them together for a bit, but at the very least what the show is trying to do is very clear.

I'm also struggling to fit Jayce and Viktor into this framework, as their story seems to be discussing something utterly different.

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Linke and Yee were way too funny for this choice.